First Issue

The gastro-intestinal tract is home to trillions of microbes including bacteria, fungi and viruses, together known as “gut microbiota”. Influence of gut microbiota on physiology, metabolism, nutrition and immunity make gut microbiota an important organ of our body. Gut microbiota maintains homeostasis, disturbance in which (dysbiosis) are reported to be

I welcome you to the first issue of “BioNE” by quoting one of the famous lines of Great Philosopher Plato- “The beginning is the most important part of the work”. The journey of this e-zine started in a small and informal lab gathering probably about two months back. The need for

Introduction : Malaria is one of the catastrophic vector-borne diseases that has affected the public health and socio-economic status of many tropical and subtropical countries including India [1]. In Africa alone, US$2 billion economic loss was recorded in 1997 due to high malaria burden [2]. As per WHO report published in

The section will primarily focus on the reader's views, comments and expert suggestions on any issue related to this e-zine. We would welcome any radical opinion on varied sections of the e-zine and its contents. The readers may put forward their valuable suggestions to improve and may also provide their

Biotechnology can be defined as any technique that uses living organisms or substances from such organisms to make or modify a product, to improve plants or animals or to develop microorganisms for specific purposes. It is one of the frontier areas of scientific development in the world today. Advances in

International
Universal flu vaccine for mankind
Influenza virus remains to be a curse to human population due to its dubious antigenic drift and shift properties. There are many instances of havoc cause by flu in the past but still the remedies available are not reliable to protect the future owing to its

Currently there is a global and political controversy concerning the safety of genetically modified (GM) foods especially in India whereas the developed countries like United Kingdom, United States, Italy, Spain and Germany are in favor of GM food producing Corn, Oilseed Rape, Tomato, Potato, Soybean, Sugar Beet, Squash, Rice, Papaya,

Organised by European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBO).This Conference will focus on three areas where progress has been spectacular, each intimately related to human disease: structural neurobiology, bacterial machines and infectious diseases, and regulation and cancer. The conference will provide examples of the use of structural knowledge to develop compounds of

Dolly, the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell was an exciting breakthrough of biological science. This cloning done by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and colleagues at the Roslin Institute was not only a gift to society but also it helped in understanding various complex phenomena of